East-the-Water Cemetery, Bideford

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The entrance gates on Barnstaple Road with the chapel to the right East-the-Water Cemetery Gates.jpg
The entrance gates on Barnstaple Road with the chapel to the right

East-the-Water Cemetery (also known as Bideford Church Cemetery) was the Church of England burial ground [1] for East-the-Water, once a separate village but now a suburb of Bideford, in Devon, England. Located on Barnstaple Road, the cemetery as of 2018 is abandoned and neglected, and the Victorian cemetery chapel is a dangerous structure on the verge of collapse. Burials in Bideford now take place at Bideford Higher Cemetery.

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The cemetery, opened in 1890, contains 476 graves holding 947 people. Among these are 20 Commonwealth War Graves Commission burials, 7 from World War I and 13 from World War II, with their distinctive headstones. [2] [3]

Notable burials

Buried at the back of the cemetery in adjacent plots are two recipient of the Victoria Cross:

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